Talia Cotton on working at Pentagram, inspiring students and creating meaningful design with code

Talia Cotton, a designer, coder and educator based in New York, is a bit of a creative powerhouse. Not only working with two teams at Pentagram in NYC, she also dedicates her time to teaching at Parsons School of Design, freelance projects and personal projects – phew! In our extensive conversation, we delved into all areas of Cotton’s creative practice, in which she describes the fast-paced and passionate world of designing and teaching; as well as the lessons we can learn from the expansive, experimental and exciting nature of code. PT: Hi Talia! How’s the last month been for you? TC: Haha. Oh my god. Very, very busy.